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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023
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Back in the day, debian used to render fonts badly to avoid a potential patent trap. Is that still a thing?
All of the ClearType patents are expired, so that's not an issue anymore. OP probably just has anti-aliasing turned off for some reason.
No.
I'm getting old, it seems. Kids these days probably don't even have to configure modlines in XFree86. Sheesh. ;)